A clear-eyed account of the totemic economic thinkers Hayek and Keynes.

Offers straight answers to every question you've ever had about how the economy works and how it affects your life. This title starts with three guys on an island who barely survive by fishing barehanded.

From the acclaimed co-author of Why Empires Fall, a bold vision for how to put Western economies back on a sustainable footing.

The only easy-to-read and practical non-specialist introduction to key concepts in environmental economics written by an international author team.

This book offers a radical new way of approaching the Old Testament. Sigmund Wagner-Tsukamoto argues that rational, institutional and constitutional economic lessons can be derived from the Old Testament, with applications to social conflict and resolution. The book suggests that this religious text also anticipated many modern economic advances.

Classical economics suggests that market economies are self-correcting in times of recession or depression, and tend toward full employment and output. But English economist John Maynard Keynes disagrees. In his ground-breaking 1936 study The General Theory, Keynes argues that traditional economics has misunderstood the causes of unemployment.

Whilst we may not like tax very much, in contrast it is clear that we really do like the public services which governments provide. This title shows what tax is for and how it contributes to the creation of the society we aspire to.

Exposes the attempts by developed countries to 'kick away the ladder' from developing countries trying to join the economic elite.

* Colin Crouch has recently become one of the world's leading voices on neoliberalism and the financial takeover of social values * In this new book, Crouch continues to explore the themes of his previous successful books: Post-Democracy, The Strange Non-Death of Neoliberalism and Making Capitalism Fit For Society.

If you found maths lessons at school irrelevant and boring, that's because you didn't have a teacher like Bobby Seagull.***As seen on BBC 2's Monkman & Seagull's Genius Guide to Britain*** Long before his rise to cult fandom on University Challenge, Bobby Seagull was obsessed with numbers.

An account of life below the margins in the greatest Metropolis in the world and a portrait of the habits, tastes, amusements, appearance, speech, humour, earnings and opinions of the labouring poor at the time of the Great Exhibition.

This groundbreaking new core textbook encourages students to take a more critical approach to the prevalent assumptions around the subject of macroeconomics, by comparing and contrasting heterodox and orthodox approaches to theory and policy.

Provides an engaging introduction to macroeconomics and then delves into more specific topics, such as business cycles, inflation, unemployment, domestic output, monetary policy, and much more. This book helps you find out how many different financial, business, consumer, and more.

Considered his most important work, Mahbub ul Haq's Reflections on Human Development appeared at the end of his career in international development, and consolidates his revolutionary contribution to the discipline.

The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed the weaknesses of globalisation, exposed the fragility of the current growth model, and accelerated the ongoing tech revolution.

Intended for intermediate and final year undergraduate, first year graduate and MBA programmes in managerial economics and applied microeconomic analysis, this work covers the areas of managerial economics courses, and complements theoretical concepts with practical applications. It includes lists of key terms and chapter summaries.

Focusing on the differences he observed in economic behavior between Catholics and Protestants, Weber's seminal 1905 work examines the role that morality plays in the lives people choose to lead seeking to isolate beliefs and practices that influenced economic behaviour.

Suitable for those who want to know what the next four decades hold in store, this title charts the rise and fall of fertility rates across continents; how energy resources will change in light of new technology, and how different nations will deal with major developments in science and warfare.

Fully updated new edition of an acclaimed report on the global financial crisis.